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Kraft Foods has mapped its entire carbon footprint in a bid to improve the sustainability of its global agricultural procurement and supply chains.

“It has been a boom rather than a bane,” says Saurabh Gupta, vice president at Everest Group, when asked of the impact the economic crisis has had on the procurement outsourcing market. And that sentiment is likely to hold as we move into another year …

“It has been a boom rather than a bane,” says Saurabh Gupta, vice president at Everest Group, when asked of the impact the economic crisis has had on the procurement outsourcing market. And that sentiment is likely to hold as we move into another year …

Generic drugmakers are planning to create an advance warning system for medicines that are in short supply, the head of the US generic industry’s trade group said on Thursday.

Pegatron, a Chinese supplier to Apple, has reported an explosion at one of its subsidiary’s plants in Shanghai over the weekend, injuring 61 workers.

High oil prices, European recession and a struggling US economy, together with slower growth in China will lead to a global growth “malaise” in 2012, economic experts have warned.

Sustainability information will be considered “vital” in advancing business models in industries in 2012, according to industry analysts.

What impact IBM’s takeover of Emptoris will have on the procurement software market will be one question taxing procurement as Europe and the US begins to shut down for the Christmas break.

The outlook for the commodity protein, produce and dairy sectors will remain “stable” for 2012, market experts have predicted.

Logistics companies are moving to invest more in specialty cargo facilities as they search for stable growth and higher margins in the face of an uncertain global trade, according to reports.